Uncle, I will be doing that professionally in Washington :-) (kind of - coming over to build relationships between UK and US research funders - including astronomy bullshit)
― ljubljana, Sunday, 9 November 2008 19:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Sunday, 9 November 2008 19:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
Maybe you'd better move to Hollywood if you want to see the stars up close :-)
― StanM, Sunday, 9 November 2008 19:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
Moon In My Room
― ljubljana, Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
Er, that could be misinterpreted, but luckily I believe not even Ned has pictures of my own actual room for photoshopping purposes
― ljubljana, Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
― snoball, Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
In this day and age, surely I should be able to buy a telescope which plugs into a USB port, so I can see its output on my monitor instead of peering through a little eyehole? Surely it should be giving me images at about 8MP? And surely I should be able to just type in "SATURN" and (because the telescope has GPS and an internal clock and a built in compass and eveything) it should just be able to point at and focus on saturn for me? Surely I should be able to buy something that does all this for about £450?
― JimD, Saturday, 1 August 2009 08:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I agree!
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 08:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/201689287/Sky_watcher_Telescope.html
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Saturday, 1 August 2009 09:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
okay, not cheap. but the they're out there.
http://www.opticalvision.co.uk/astronomical_telescopes/sky-watcher/sysncan_az_go-to_computerised_telescopes
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Saturday, 1 August 2009 09:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ooh, ok, I'm excited.
― JimD, Saturday, 1 August 2009 17:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
I never really pay attention to this stuff, but Jupiter and Venus were so bright in the sky tonight, Mars too. Could see a couple of the moons orbiting Jupiter with just my birding binoculars, nice to be able to show my kids ~the wonders of the solar system~. Cue fruit orbiting the fruit bowl on the kitchen table trying to explain it all to them.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also that star chart app on my iPad, so worth it.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jupiter and Venus were just nuts tonight! And so close to each other.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
you should be able to see mercury a little bit after sundown if you can see that close to the horizon too. it'll be in the path between jupiter/venus and where the sun went down. and saturn comes up later in the evening down below mars!
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yah Jupiter and Venus were last night closest to the earth since some long time, and if you're into astrology apparently it also forms something called a "Grand Trine" with Pluto, which is v auspicious so Ive read. All happened on my b'day too, which felt confidence-boosting!
I really noticd that venus/jupiter lineup the last 2 nights though, really amazing!
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Happy birthday!
― StanM, Thursday, 15 March 2012 07:59 (1 year ago) Permalink